Hi all -- I'm having some problems with truetype font rendering in pd/GEM, and was wondering if anyone else has had similar problems or has any suggestions. I am using a Dell 866 Pentium machine with Red Hat 6.2, a TNT2 chipset graphics card, and the nVIDIA OpenGL drivers and XFree86 4.0 and freetype 1.3.1.
patch included with gem 0.83, for instance, pd/GEM crashes as soon as I turn on rendering. I previously had this same problem on a similar linux machine that was just using the standard Mesa3d drivers. There are no error messages prior to crashing.
Pd's CPU usage stays very low, but as I increase the font size of a "text2d" object, even if it only contains a single character, the X server CPU usage quickly jumps to almost 100%. This did not happen on other machines that were using Mesa3d drivers instead of the nVidia GL drivers.
Any ideas would be appreciated -- or even clues as to whether the problem lies in GEM, the nvidia drivers, or the freetype libraries.
Thanks, Jason Freeman Columbia Computer Music Center New York, NY ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com